Australian exports of live animals prohibited

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is the latest face from the Green Party, trade unions, lobby groups and pressure from colleagues in the Labour Party to ban live animal exports.

 

ABC1 on Monday the four corners of the screen display, in Indonesia by the Australian cattle slaughterhouse torture.

 

The video has led to the federal government to suspend the export of 11 facilities in Indonesia.

 

Independent Parliament (MP) Andrew Weir and the Australian Greens leader Bob Brown based urged lawmakers to immediately ban all exports of live animals from Australia.

 

"The bill will be placed in the slaughter of live animals exported to Indonesia, but not just against the rest of the world," Senator Brown told ABC News.

 

"We want to stop we have seen in overseas countries do not have standards, Australia has a continuous cruel, we must ensure that the massacres occurred in Australia."

 

An online lobby group is willing to organize your clothing has received more than 20 million signatures to support ban on the export of live animals, and members of Congress are also being bombarded with requests for the end of trading.

 

West Australian Labor MP Melissa Parker, submitted last week, 40,000 people called for the end of the livestock export petition.

 

Seat of Fremantle Park is home to a port, see the eighty percent live sheep exports of live cattle exports and 25 per cent per annum.

 

The petition has been called for trade in live animals will be phased out within five years, and more money to invest in transportation and incentives for producers to have their livestock slaughtered locally.

 

Nick Xenophon base without party affiliation and Andrew Will also support the move, said that the industry should be completed within three years of all live cattle exports to Indonesia immediately suspended.

 

Protests are also scheduled for Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth on Saturday, June 18 called for an end live animal exports.

 

Meanwhile, the film was a big hit to customers around the beef from Australia and the Australian Meat Industry Council member, said the sales drop appeared troubled consumers to switch away from beef.

 

"They are asking us now is how to handle the animals. They are very worried," Terry Craig McGimpsey meat from the horizon in New South Wales Townsville, ABC News on Monday.

 

Australian Meat Industry Council and the butcher will be decided this week the release of the lens.